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Line of Duty: Viewer spots scene where Ian Buckells goes golfing with the OCG back in season 1
The writing was ALWAYS on the wall
We re still coming to terms with all the revelations from the season 6 finale of
Line of Duty, where DCI Ian Buckells was unmasked as The Fourth Man (we re still not completely convinced, tbh). In the days since the episode aired we ve beeen trying to work out just
how we could have missed it - looking back at all the clues about Buckells we missed over the years. And now one viewer has spotted something big. It s a scene showing Buckells playing golf with members of the OCG all the way back in season 1.
Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio admits clue in series one hinted at who H really was Mirror 2 hrs ago
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Line of Duty fans were frantically trying to figure out who the mysterious H was before he was finally revealed on Sunday night. The gripping finale of the sixth series of the BBC cop drama drew in huge crowds as 12.8 million tuned in to discover who the mastermind criminal was.
And in underwhelming fashion, The Fourth Man was unveiled as DCI Ian Buckells, much to the surprise of most viewers.
However, the show s creator Jed Mercurio has admitted that there were actually clues throughout the hit drama leading as far back as the very first series.
Mercurio then went on to recall an important moment in the drama s fifth episode between Buckells (Nigel Boyle) and fellow bent copper Matthew Dot Cottan (Craig Parkinson), who was uncovered as the first member of the group of corrupt police officers by Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar), Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) following his death in series three.
In the series one moment, Cottan requests to speak to a newly-arrested Tommy Hunter,
another criminal within the force who has since been revealed to be one of the top brass in the OCG, an elusive organised crime syndicate. Something that Buckells, supposedly knowing why he d want to, seems wary of him doing in such a public setting.